Job Corps Tribe Signs Contract
Dixon- A new contract for the Kicking Horse Manpower Center has been accepted.
The Tribal Council last Thursday approved the two year contract in spit of misgivings about some aspects of the U.S. Department of Labor
offer. The total package for the new contract is $2,036,651. A delegation of Tribal
A delegation of Tribal Coun-cilmen and other reservation officials met in Washington D. C. with Labor Department negotiators September 14 to talk over a second term of Tribal operation of the three year old
complex located east of Ronan. Some tribal negotiators were disappointed in certain provisions in the Labor Department offer such as a reducation in the contractor's fee from $78,000 to $66,000.
But the Department agreed to go along with two 5.5 percent pay raises -- one in Nov. of this year and one the following year. The new pact also includes a rugling that Manpower power training works-projects could be made on tribal lands.
Kicking Horse Manpower Director, Wayne Hamel told the Council Thursday that he was satisfied that the new offer would sufficiently benefit the Tribe to warrent acceptance as it stands. Acting Job Corps Committee Chairman Tom Pablo, Hot Springs, agreed pointing out that the new works projects ruling could be of more benefit to the Tribe than the $12,000 lost in the contractors fee.
The Kicking Horse Manpower Training Center was completed in 1965 as an Office of Economic Opportunity Job Corps training Center. It was abandoned in 1969 as a Department of Labor MDTA Project and was turned over to tribal administration in 1970.
Planned Forestry Program
Editor's Note- This is a continuation of an introduction on forestry started in the last issue of Char-Koosta. The completed article will be the first in a series on the forests
and forestry.
The series will try to take an honest look at the forest lands and how they are managed. We will look at past feathers and flubs of the for-
estry program and try to get an idea about the future of the forests from a number of different viewpoints. .
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Jesuit Fathers Return Mission Lands
St. Ignatius- Some 1,000 acres of missionary lands taken from the tribe by the U.S. Government in 1904 has been returned
The lands, 1,033 acres in and around St. Ignatius, were taken from the tribe by authority of the Act of 1904 and given to the Fathers of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). A delegation of Jesuit Fathers, from Portland and Missoula,
were at last Friday's Council meeting with a pair of otters which would return the lands to tribal control.
Father Davis of Portland and Father McNaulty of Missoula first offered to turn over the land to the tribe with no strings attached....but they also made another proposal with strings.
Father Davis proposed the tribe pay the assessed value of the lands (about $200 to $250 per acre) and place the money in a trust account. The trust, Father Davis explained, would be used for religious teaching and education of children. He said the trust would be administered by a board consisting
of four tribal members and three Fathers.
Councilman Tom "Bear-head" Swaney questioned the trust account proposal on the principal that it would maintain the paternal relationship between the church and the tribe. He said the tribe has
grown up and are "now capable of looking after our own affairs". Swaney made a motion to accept the initial offer of accepting the return of the 1904 lands without strings and negotiating for the purchase of
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Tribe-Montana Power Plan Powersite
Missoula-A closed door session between Montana Power officials and members of the Tribal Council and advisors was held last Friday on the possibility of developing two new reservation river power sites.
The Tribe and Montana Power agreed to meet again in about two months after both have completed evaluation studies on the Kerr Dam facility.
The meeting, held in the Florence hotel at the invitation of Montana Power, was called to discuss an application to the Federal Power Commission for the development of Buffalo
Rapids II and IV, The two sites are located withing the re< ervation downstream of Montana Power's leased facility at Kerr Dam.
The proposal, which was first brought up some seven years ago, would provide electric generating plants at Buffalo Rapids II (just north of Horseshow Ben, see map) and Buffalo Rapids IV (on the river due west of Charlo) The reservoir for the two installations would back the river up from a point ajacent to Charlo to the power-house of Kerr Dam or dome 35 (cont. on page 5)